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    A landing craft vehicle personnel or landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) is any of a variety of amphibious landing craft designed to transport troops...
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    The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively by the Allied forces in amphibious landings in World...
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    design of LCM used, unlike the landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or landing craft assault (LCA) landing craft made by the US and UK respectively...
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    Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea...
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    LCVP (United Kingdom) (category Landing craft)
    The Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) is a versatile amphibious landing craft designed to transport troops or armoured vehicles from ship to shore...
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    The Jurmo-class landing craft is a type of military transport in use by the Finnish Navy. The manufacturer Marine Alutech designates it as Watercat M12...
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    from an LCVP (landing craft, vehicle, personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-crewed USS Samuel Chase at Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings in World War...
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    List of active Bangladesh Navy ships (category Lists of currently active military vehicles)
    patrol boats, missile boats, minesweepers, auxiliaries, amphibious landing craft and rapid response boats. Bangladesh Navy vessels use the prefix BNS...
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    in 2024 Uisko class landing craft Jurmo class landing craft Jehu-class landing craft "Combat boats and infantry fighting vehicles: Sweden allocates record...
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    own fleet of landing craft, such as the landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat. They are not to be confused with landing ships, which...
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    Landing Craft Assault (LCA) was a landing craft used extensively in World War II. Its primary purpose was to ferry troops from transport ships to attack...
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    Mechanized (LCM) or two Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), or two Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP); and a 1,410 m2 (15,200 sq ft) garage for heavy loads...
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    The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States...
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    tracked or wheeled vehicles and troops from amphibious assault ships to beachheads or piers. The Golfo de Tribugá-class landing craft is an LCU developed...
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    Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of "Higgins boats" (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel, or LCVPs) during World War II. The company started out as...
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    List of active Royal Marines military watercraft is a list of landing craft and other watercraft in service with the Royal Marines. It consist of a varied...
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  • (APD). The APA carried troops and Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel(LCVP)s in which to land them, plus a few Landing Craft Mechanized(LCM)s for bigger loads...
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    into the Landing Craft, Personnel (Ramped) (LCP(R)) and later the Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP). However, the Daihatsu landing craft was more...
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  • consisted of over 100 personnel and was equipped with a variety of Landing Craft including Rigid Raiders and Landing Craft Vehicle/Personnel. 539 Assault Squadron...
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    The Landing Craft Personnel (Large) or LCP (L) was a landing craft used extensively in the Second World War. Its primary purpose was to ferry troops from...
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    The landing craft, tank (LCT) (or tank landing craft, TLC) was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads. They were initially developed...
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    launcher. The ship also carries four landing craft vehicle personnel (LCVP) on board, which can be used for the landing of troops. The major operations undertaken...
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    Each landing ship can carry up to 15 AAV-7 and 300 Marines.[citation needed] The ships also use two types of Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVPs):...
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    Boat Unit ONE, was created to command Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) LCM-3s and Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP)s. In 1950, the two commands participated...
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    small landing craft, or amphibians, were designed. The U.S.-designed Landing Vehicle Tracked, was an amphibious (and sometimes armored) personnel carrier...
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    cars, buses, trucks, railway vehicles, combat vehicles and hovercraft. Classic landing craft are not amphibious vehicles as they do not offer any real...
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    26 Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP, popularly known as "Higgins Boats"), while the British LSI(L) carried 900 to 1,400 troops and 18 Landing Craft...
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  • for troop transport duties. The ship has large davits for Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) and also features high bridge forward, funnel in the...
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  • MTP96 class is a series of Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel used by the Italian Navy and Italian Army. Twenty of these crafts are operated aboard the three...
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    that frequently occurred to smaller vessels such as LCVP's (Landing Craft Vehicle/Personnel). The Auxiliary Repair Light (ARL) ship was designed to meet...
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